Brian holds a degree in Mathematics and a Doctorate in Computer Science. He is an information systems expert with over 30 years of experience in academia and industry. He has particular interests in the socio-technical aspects of information systems development and in technologies for asset sharing, most recently through the semantic web.

Brian holds a degree in Mathematics and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of East Anglia. He is an information systems expert with 30 years of experience of research and development as an academic at the Universities of Queensland (Australia), Exeter and Skövde (Sweden), and as Information Systems Director at Certus since 2005. He has participated in a number of EU and national projects related to healthcare informatics, interoperability, Open Source Software and distributed development. He has particular interests in the socio-technical aspects of information systems development and in technologies for asset sharing, most recently through semantic web technologies. From 2004-6 he chaired the steering group of BNCOD, the UK national forum for database researchers.